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@BradWilcoxIFS
Aug 18, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
If "conservative forms of fatherhood were obviously toxic relative to the Walzian glories of liberal dadhood, you would presumably expect to see those effects made manifest among children," @DouthatNYT. But the data pt in a different direction:

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As @JonHaidt has noted, it's progressive young women whose mental health has tanked the most in recent years: afterbabel.com/p/mental-healt…
@JonHaidt And as @jtrothwell @BrookingsInst has found, “Conservative parents are the most likely to adopt the parenting practices associated with adolescent mental health”, which is “warm, responsive, *and* rule-bound, disciplined parenting.” ifstudies.org/blog/parenting…
@DouthatNYT on the rhetoric VS reality of masculinity in American families: nytimes.com/2024/08/17/opi…

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Aug 30
NEW: @WSJ reports "Americans are having a record low amount of sex—even less than they did during Covid—according to a new study" from @FamStudies. We find that

✔️just 37% of adult Americans have sex weekly Image
When it comes to sexlessness among young adults, the biggest change comes post-2010.

Prior to 2010, the share of young adults, ages 18-29, who reported not having sex held steady around 15%.

But from 2010 to 2024, the share doubled, from 12% to 24% in the GSS. Image
This “hockey-stick” shape of young adult sexlessness "resembles the pattern identified by @JonHaidt in The Anxious Generation." Haidt calls the period of 2010 to 2015 the “Great Rewiring.” "Adolescents going through puberty over this period were subject to all-pervasive digital media" which seems to have reduced their odds having sex in the real world.
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Aug 26
A majority of single women believe single women are happier than married women.

But new @jean_twenge research indicates it is married women who are happier. Married women report

✔️ Less loneliness
✔️ More physical touch
✔️ More meaning

than single women.Image
In a world where more Americans feel lonely, married women are least likely to report feeling lonely "most or all of the time", according to new @jean_twenge @WendyRWang & Erickson research:Image
@jean_twenge @WendyRWang In a digital age where opportunities for physical touch seem fewer, married women have more opportunities for physical touch, especially compared to unmarried, childless women.

New @jean_twenge @WendyRWang & Jenet Erickson: Image
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Jul 18
1. A lot of speculation about infidelity since yesterday. Here are some important points about who (commits it), why (it matters) & how (to affair proof your marriage).

First: Who cheats more, men or women?

✔️20% of men 👨🏽
✔️13% of women 👩🏽

admitted in one national survey: Image
2. Who cheats more?
✔️Men, Some College, Democrats, grew up in non-intact family, not religious

Who cheats less?
✔️Women, HS or less, Republicans, grew up with both parents, the religious
Source: @WendyRWang @FamStudies Image
3. What about Virtual Sex and Infidelity?

5% of currently married Americans report they have had cybersex, 11% admit they have had sexual talk online with someone besides their spouse. Husbands are more likely to stray than wives, with 16% of husbands reporting any sort of electronic sexual dalliance, compared to 8 percent of wives.

Online infidelity can include: sex, cybersex,
sexting, real-life secret emotional relationships,
online secret emotional relationships, etc.

Generation X and Millennials, are much more likely than older generations to have engaged in online cheating:
ifstudies.org/blog/new-state…
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Jun 12
1. Striking new @UVA @_HamptonU study finds:
✔️ Dads matter more for boys' school behavior, girls' emotional wellbeing
✔️ No racial gap in school performance for black & white kids in intact, father-present homes
✔️ Share of kids in father-present homes has stabilized in VA Image
2. Dads matter for both boys & girls. But engaged dads matter for boys & girls in different ways. They are more protective for

✔️ Boys' behavior in school
✔️ Girls' odds of depressionImage
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3. There is basically no racial (or ethnic) divide in school performance or behavior for black and white kids from intact, father-present families in Virginia.

Here's GPA by race/ethnicity in VA: Image
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Apr 8
1. @katebachwsj opens up @UVA: Most Americans still aspire to marriage and have kids. But some are struggling to find partners and start families.
2. @Louise_m_perry -- Yes, marriage is in retreat, at least compared to the mid-20th century. But things have leveled off of late. Imp to note that "Marriage is human universal. We need some way to manage heterosexuality" & "reproduction." "Marriage is the way societies" have organized this.
3. @michelleinbklyn: I don't agree with @BradWilcoxIFS premise that marriage has a PR problem. I don't think women are not concerned w/ finding a partner. Marriage is fairly robust among upper SES. Where marriage has fallen apart, it's where it's a bad economic bargain... "I think it has to do with the brutality of the dating market... It's not because they have watched too much Sex in the City.. The marriageable men aren't really out there."
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Feb 7
1. New Study: The happiest wives have husbands who are more protective -- as well as committed, religious & romantic. Wives' odds of being "very happy" increase by

☑️ 137% w/ more protective
☑️ 399% w/ more committed
☑️ 112% w/ more religious
☑️ 56% w/ more romantic

husbands. Image
2. “One of the striking things I found in speaking to wives on both the left and the right is that they were generally markedly happier when they told me that their husbands made them feel physically safe or protected." Image
3. “Commitment to one’s spouse has long been recognized as a foundation for developing a flourishing marriage,” said @DrJasonCarroll. “While commitment has always been an important part of healthy marriage, it may be even more significant for couples today where they are surrounded by media and cultural trends that often encourage spouses to turn their attention toward careers, friends, and technology.”
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